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Feb 28, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
It is not the question of hurting sentiments. It is squarely to do with facts, cherry-picking and pandering to a particular ideology. Let me explain.
This is an outright attempt to whitewash history particularly with reference to the invasion of Islam in India. 1/n
There is absolutely no historical truth in maintaining that Islam came to India in 7th century. Cheraman mosque of Kerala mentioned by the 'esteemed member' as well as in this clarification, is on the Western coast of India that had trade relations with the Arabs....2/n
Dec 15, 2021 • 201 tweets • >60 min read
Will do a #thiruppavai thread by posting every paasuram on each day of this holy #margazhi month.
Unpopular opinion: I don't see introducing a degree on Hinduism as any achievement. Rather I see it as a pathological sign of further downfall. The slow metamorphosis of a living tradition has now gone into academics enabling its fossilization in a museum in due course. 1/n
Be that as it may, im yet to see the full course content of this program. When the shastras and darshana studies moved out from gurukula to public universities, it has undergone several mutations making it 'palatable' to the students. But this happened some 100 yrs back. 2/n
Aug 26, 2020 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
If plagiarism had a celebrity it will be of @vivekagnihotri for in his recent video () on #WilliamDalrymple he has lifted sentences verbatim from @dharmadispatch 's article (dharmadispatch.in/culture/a-fest…) w/o batting an eyelid. Let me dissect the plagiarism. 1/n2/n in the opening remark, purportedly made to appear as his, #vivekagnihotri says at 1.25 in the video regarding the quote from Churchill. Well these were the opening lines from Sandeep's article:
